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Ron Wyden: “We stopped it. We said the biggest fires are now basically going to be treated as the disasters they are.”

On the recordMarch 8, 2023
We stopped it. We said the biggest fires are now basically going to be treated as the disasters they are.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the change in how large fires are classified and funded.

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